Gah!
The Fools.
So they're dumbing down BSG a thousandfold more than they dumbed down Star Trek with TNG.
Battle Star Galactica is cool.
Cylons are cool.
Starbuck is cool.
That show makes an impression on any generation that watches it. When my kid brother saw the original series for the first time ever in his early teens, (and some 20 years after it first aired) he thought it was excellent. He found himself surprised and entertained.
Blow away all the spectacular packaging from Star Trek and Star Wars (episodes IV - VI at least) and at their core they convey a deep and meaningful message. Like it or not, with Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry was creating "morality plays".
New Series of BSG? If the Cylons aren't their cool metallic selves that would be an unpardonable crime in it's self.
The same stories are told time and time again.
It's not the story, but how you tell it.
Thankfully, being a citizen of the UK, I won't have to worry about boycotting anything for donkey's ages.
We used to get everything first, the latest Start Trek and B-5 episodes (though our government saw fit to censor parts of these episodes it deemed improper for UK viewing - I'm not kidding) but not anymore.
The scourge of corporate television has put an end to that. Pay for Satellite Television or stay in the dark for years.
The second season of Enterprise started for us, on terrestrial television, one week ago today.
Greedy corporate vampires. I suppose in a way, I'm already actively participating in the boycott, as I refuse to subscribe to the Corporate Organ Grinders and pay for the privilege of watching them screw up some of my favourite shows.
Death to Rupert Murdock! Hang him, I say! - but flogg him first.
Azrael